I was browsing through the Genealogy Department’s collection, when I found a book called “Bibliographic Checklist of African American Newspapers” by Barbara K. Henritze. It was published in 1995. It is basically a list of all known Black owned newspapers that had been published in the United States. There were a few from Monroe that I hadn’t heard of! I will publish the names of the ones listed and the dates they published.
Black Free Press/Monroe Free Press – 1973 – present
Broadcast/Southern Broadcast – 1932 – 1938
Monroe Community Leader – 1979 – 1987
Monroe Dispatch – 1975 – present
Negro in Louisiana – before 1936
News Leader – 1962 – 1976
Rapping Black – 1969 – 1973
Twin City Journal – 1940
Twin City Tribune – 1941 – 1944
Ouachita Parish History Tidbits 
There was also another Negro NewsPaper in Monroe, Louisiana in the Late 1920s and Early 1930s known as the Monroe Broadcast. The Newspaper was housed in “The Medlock Building” Owned by the Black Couple William & Orel Medlock.
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Please Note : I couldn’t confirm it, but it seems like the Southern Broadcast Newspaper and the Monroe Broadcast Newspaper were both published by the same company, out of the Medlock Building( also both Newspapers have 1932 as when they began).
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